Sell Montana To Canada To Ease National Debt: Petition

[TexasTowelie]

A petition calling Montana "useless" and full of beavers suggest it be sold to Canada for $1 trillion to ease the national debt.


The national debt has hit a new milestone, topping $22 trillion for the first time. One way to bring it down, according to a cheeky online petition, is to sell Montana to Canada for $1 trillion. The petition calls Montana "useless."

Change.org user Ian Hammond, who started the petition, suggested that one way to convince Canada to take Montana off our hands is "just tell them it has beavers or something." It had received about 5,000 signatures by mid-afternoon Friday.

Most seemed to take it in the spirit it was (probably) intended. Some Montanans even embraced the idea.

"I'm Montanan and hoping to join Canada without the moving costs," user C.J. Williams wrote on the petition site. "Let's do this. Please adopt us."

Read more: https://patch.com/montana/across-mt/sell-montana-canada-ease-national-debt-petition